Least it's not forty below out there...
Jul. 29th, 2007 05:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eponymous_roseAfter a lightning storm the likes of which you wouldn't believe (constant lightning and excruciatingly loud thunder for three straight hours!), the power in our whole block got zapped out around midnight. This was, of course, extremely aggravating because we're just at the tail end of yet another heat wave and so I was sort of considering my little fan to be pretty indispensable. The next morning, eleven hours later, there was still no power (and I don't even want to think about the food going bad in the fridge and freezer), so I gave up and just came to work. On a Sunday. Which meant dashing around the building looking for a door someone'd forgotten to lock. Luckily, these doors tend to bounce back open if you slam them too hard, so I got lucky. Heehee.
Three reasons why I came here: 1) Internet access, 2) hot food, and 3) a piano within walking distance.
Oh. And air conditioning. That just may have had something to do with it! :D
So, yes. I'm gonna try heading home shortly, but if there's no power there I'll be cut off the internet until tomorrow. *grumbles* This is annoying.
At least I had my little super-powered LED flashlight. It always comes in handy! *beams*
Alas, my laptop only has about nine minutes of battery power when totally charged (and it takes three of those minutes to boot up). However, I managed to transfer a couple of 7th Doctor Big Finish audios to my iPod before running out of batteries (the smart thing to do would've been to just bring my laptop with me to work and charge it up here, which is obviously why I didn't think of it until now), so I've been listening to a couple of the Doctor/Ace/Hex episodes while basking in the air conditioned wonderfulness. I really like Hex. I think they've done a lot of things with him as a nurse that they could've gone into more with Martha being a med student. But my rant on missed opportunities for character development can wait for another day.
I enjoyed "Live 34" about a thousand times more than I expected to! (See, I'm a sucker for gimmicky audios but didn't really feel the love for "Flip-Flop", so wasn't expecting much of this one.) It was all very exciting, and even the secondary characters were interesting (though I've gotta feel sorry for the guy who played the main newscaster, seeing as how he had about 80% of the lines in the whole two-hour drama). I think my favourite bit, though, was the random static and channel-flipping in place of the theme music. I actually get chills when I hear the "beep beep beep booooop" at the top of each hour - comes of spending hours and hours "helping" Dad with his shortwave set when I was a kid. So, yes. Much nostalgic goodness.
...now I really do feel silly for not having brought my laptop with me. At least I could've grabbed the external hard drive! I want to go home and listen to more audios and maybe study a bit for my music exam (which involves a convoluted word document on my sleeping hard drive).
Of course, I also want to go home and not have to triage the fridge and find out how much food I've lost today. *groans* At least yesterday I had the presence of mind to get rid of the wonky cilantro in the vegetable drawer. And the suspicious bagel. But I had a whole pack of fish sticks, and another unopened box of chicken fingers in the freezer - hopefully nobody was silly enough to open the freezer while I was gone. *winces*
Can we just cut out the heat for a while? Please? I feel like I haven't had a good night's sleep all summer! (Of course, given temperature the last few days I'm about ready to announce my "Pants Optional" approach to clothing, so I wouldn't put much stock in my sanity just at the moment.)
Forecast predicts nicer weather beginning tomorrow, with highs dipping back below 30 Celsius (all the way to 24!) and overnight lows falling below 18 (I think they're saying 9, which sounds wonderful).
Enough stalling; I'm gonna look for an inexpensive restaurant that's open on a Sunday evening (a rarity given the short-staffedness of every place under the sun lately) and then head home to face the doom of my poor little yoghurts.
Three reasons why I came here: 1) Internet access, 2) hot food, and 3) a piano within walking distance.
Oh. And air conditioning. That just may have had something to do with it! :D
So, yes. I'm gonna try heading home shortly, but if there's no power there I'll be cut off the internet until tomorrow. *grumbles* This is annoying.
At least I had my little super-powered LED flashlight. It always comes in handy! *beams*
Alas, my laptop only has about nine minutes of battery power when totally charged (and it takes three of those minutes to boot up). However, I managed to transfer a couple of 7th Doctor Big Finish audios to my iPod before running out of batteries (the smart thing to do would've been to just bring my laptop with me to work and charge it up here, which is obviously why I didn't think of it until now), so I've been listening to a couple of the Doctor/Ace/Hex episodes while basking in the air conditioned wonderfulness. I really like Hex. I think they've done a lot of things with him as a nurse that they could've gone into more with Martha being a med student. But my rant on missed opportunities for character development can wait for another day.
I enjoyed "Live 34" about a thousand times more than I expected to! (See, I'm a sucker for gimmicky audios but didn't really feel the love for "Flip-Flop", so wasn't expecting much of this one.) It was all very exciting, and even the secondary characters were interesting (though I've gotta feel sorry for the guy who played the main newscaster, seeing as how he had about 80% of the lines in the whole two-hour drama). I think my favourite bit, though, was the random static and channel-flipping in place of the theme music. I actually get chills when I hear the "beep beep beep booooop" at the top of each hour - comes of spending hours and hours "helping" Dad with his shortwave set when I was a kid. So, yes. Much nostalgic goodness.
...now I really do feel silly for not having brought my laptop with me. At least I could've grabbed the external hard drive! I want to go home and listen to more audios and maybe study a bit for my music exam (which involves a convoluted word document on my sleeping hard drive).
Of course, I also want to go home and not have to triage the fridge and find out how much food I've lost today. *groans* At least yesterday I had the presence of mind to get rid of the wonky cilantro in the vegetable drawer. And the suspicious bagel. But I had a whole pack of fish sticks, and another unopened box of chicken fingers in the freezer - hopefully nobody was silly enough to open the freezer while I was gone. *winces*
Can we just cut out the heat for a while? Please? I feel like I haven't had a good night's sleep all summer! (Of course, given temperature the last few days I'm about ready to announce my "Pants Optional" approach to clothing, so I wouldn't put much stock in my sanity just at the moment.)
Forecast predicts nicer weather beginning tomorrow, with highs dipping back below 30 Celsius (all the way to 24!) and overnight lows falling below 18 (I think they're saying 9, which sounds wonderful).
Enough stalling; I'm gonna look for an inexpensive restaurant that's open on a Sunday evening (a rarity given the short-staffedness of every place under the sun lately) and then head home to face the doom of my poor little yoghurts.
